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But how would that NPC know that it is in a game? What if we figured out how to do teleportation or time travel? How would you determine whether that is a featu
by danbruc 10y ago
But how would that NPC know that it is in a game? What if we figured out how to do teleportation or time travel? How would you determine whether that is a feature of reality or whether we discovered a bug in a simulation?
- pmontra 10y agoGut feeling: it can't know. But the simulation in some way is part of reality and maybe that's why it couldn't be known. I guess there has been plenty of philosophical research on this subject.
- danbruc 10y agoBut exactly that was my point - unless you know what either reality or a simulation really looks like, you can not look around and draw conclusions whether we live in reality or a simulation. People trying to do this make the assumptions that a simulation would have properties similar to simulations we perform and that reality would have properties similar to the laws of physics as we know them, but neither assumption seems really justified.